Bill Murray drinks, jokes with Guy Fieri on Nacho Showdown: ‘Truth is, he’s a redhead’
Even with a foggy lens and less-than-ideal audio, it turns out it’s still fun to watch Bill Murray just sit and be the enigmatic entertainer that he is.
Fans learned this much Friday afternoon when Murray and son Homer faced off against Guy Fieri and his son Hunter in the widely publicized “Nacho Average Showdown.”
The virtual cooking event, a fundraiser for the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund, saw about 10K viewers raise nearly $11K during the hour-long livestream. The contest: The Murrays (Bill “coached” while Hunter, a chef, cooked in his Brooklyn restaurant) and the Fieris (Hunter was Guy’s sous chef) were to make the most appealing nachos, as judged by Terry Crews and Shaquille O’Neal (because why not). Chef Carla Hall moderated the whole thing on the Food Network Facebook page.
Yes, melty nachos were made, but more importantly there was some very dry humor delivered by Bill. The proud dad spent the livestream at a table surrounded by booze (Tito’s was one of the event’s sponsors), giving his son unhelpful encouragement like, “I’m so proud of you, son … You’ve gotten so tall, so intelligent … When you were first born, I would speak to you, you wouldn’t even reply. I thought, is he ever going to make it?”
